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Saurashtra Coastal Tour by Car
Junagadh is an ancient fortified city. It has some very old buildings & street-squares, Uperkot Fort, and the stunning Mahabat Maqbara.
Porbandar on the Saurashtra coast between Veraval and Dwarka is mainly famous as Mahatma Gandhi's birthplace and where he lived till age six.
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Uperkot Fort Junagadh - Canon
Buddhist Caves at Uperkot Fort
Water Tank at Uperkot Fort
1st September 2005: 5th day >> Afternoon at Junagadh
I reached Junagadh by 1:00pm (from Gir Lion Sanctuary) and took a room in Hotel National, in Kalwa Chowk, in the heart of the city. After lunch went out and did a city sights tour by auto for Rs 60/- and saw Upperkot Fort, Darbar Hall Museum, Mahabat Makbara and Narsingh Mehta Chowk.
Junagadh Mosque
Mahabat Maqbara (1892) a stunning mausoleum of Nawab of Junagadh
Mahabat Maqbara (1892) .... at Junagadh
Above 2 Pics - Mahabat Maqbara
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2nd September 2005 : Junagadh - Porbandar - Dwaraka
I left Hotel at Junagadh at 6:45 am and went to Girnar Hill (but then decided not to climb the 10,000 steps, to the top to see the Jain temples there) from a distance and then to the Ashokan Edicts; but that was closed so could not see the Rock Edicts of Ashoka. Drove on to Porbandar arriving there at 9:30am and first had breakfast at Swagat Restaurant and then went to Kirti Mandir by the coast; where the House where Gandhi was born is kept as a Memorial Museum.
Junagadh Ashok Lekhalaya
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Entrance to Gandhi's birth-place; by the side of Kirti Mandir
Porbandar.... Kirti Mandir
Gandhiji memories preserved
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